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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.7-rc2, released on May 29.
Most of the patches this time around are aimed at stabilization
after the big changes in -rc1, but -rc2 also contains an ALSA update, a
whole bunch of new __user annotations (intended to help find
misuses of user-space pointers - see below), an XFS update, some IPSec
fixes, and some
architecture updates. See the long-format
changelog for the details.
Linus's BitKeeper repository contains, as of this writing, some stack usage reduction patches, more __user annotations, some architecture updates, and a few other fixes. The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.7-rc2-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include NFS, MD, and DMI updates, the x86 performance counters patch, some read-copy-update scalability work, and the usual pile of fixes. The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.27-pre4, which was released by Marcelo on May 30. There are some XFS and JFS updates, a number of 2.6 networking backports (including TCP Vegas support and receiver-side RTT estimation) some driver updates, and the usual set of fixes. (Log in to post comments)
2.6.7-rc2 wiped out the Gigabit Ethernet config entirely Posted Jun 3, 2004 5:16 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] As in the title, 2.6.7-rc2 doesn't have ANY gigabit Ethernet choices, ATALL, here. The top level entry under network drivers still exists, but there's nothing under it to enable the category, /at/ /all/. That's at least here on AMD64, where many mobos come standand with it, making it a potentially big issue. I had done the usual verify and unpack, make and install w/ LILO, reboot and try it out, only to find I had no Ethernet. Attempting to modprobe the module manually resulted in module not found, so away I went to look at the config and find out why, only to discover there weren't ANY gigabit drivers there to choose from! I'm guessing it's a minor screwup to the kernel config setup, and has already been corrected in the BK snapshots, but I haven't tried them yet. At least this time it didn't crash and take my (already ailing) video card with it, like the misalignment issues in 2.6.6-rc3 did. <g> That was fixed by the bk3 snapshot, which is when I got around to trying it again (after finding a replacement video card, of course). I guess there's a reason they are rc's! <g> Duncan
2.6.7-rc2 wiped out the Gigabit Ethernet config entirely Posted Jun 3, 2004 12:31 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] My understanding is that you have to enable 10/100MB ethernet, then the gigabit menu will show up.
2.6.7-rc2 wiped out the Gigabit Ethernet config entirely Posted Jun 3, 2004 22:26 UTC (Thu) by basso (guest, #1063) [Link] Not 10/100 -- there's a new option to enable Gigabit ethernet.CONFIG_NET_GIGE=y Caught me by surprise too.
TCP improvements Posted Jun 3, 2004 16:20 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] I'd like to hear more about the various congestion control features and howthey work together.
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